The Israel Lobby Con EXTRA! Podcast

Jan 29 2025 100 ep. 31 mins 89

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IsraelLobbyCon Extra! is an online initiative created in 2020. It advances the IsraelLobbyCon.org mission and provides key expertise, analysis and global outreach opportunities between our annual National Press Club conferences.

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Martin F. McMahon: The Legal Battle for Justice Against Israeli Settlers and their American Financiers.

Jan 29 2025 19 mins

Martin McMahon is a graduate of Fordham Law School, and an experienced litigator who has tried cases all over America. He has spent a number of years with the Securities Investor Protection Corporation, where he oversaw significant litigation matters in the Southern District of New York and in the Second Circuit. He has had private practice experience, having been with Cravath, Swa

James North: How The New York Times Rigs News on Israel Palestine.

Jan 22 2025 33 mins

James North is an independent writer, based in New York City, who has been reporting from Africa, Latin America and Asia for 44 years. He is also a contributing editor at Mondoweiss, the website that covers “News & Opinion About Palestine, Israel and the United States.” Over the years, North has written for The Nation, In These Times, and many other publications. He is also

Grant F. Smith: U.S. Foreign Aid and the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program.

Jan 15 2025 27 mins

Grant Smith is the director of the Washington, DC-based Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy (IRmep). He is the author of the 2016 book Big Israel: How Israel’s Lobby Moves America and Divert! Numec, Zalman Shapiro and the Diversion of U.S. Weapons-Grade Uranium Into the Israeli Nuclear Weapons Program (2012). Smith has also written two histories of the American Israel P

Ali Abunimah: What does a Censored Undercover News Investigation Reveal about the Israel Lobby in America?

Jan 08 2025 32 mins

Ali Abunimah is a journalist and the co-founder and executive director of the widely acclaimed The Electronic Intifada, a nonprofit, independent online publication focusing on Palestine. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, Abunimah is a frequent speaker on the Middle East, contributing regularly to numerous publications. He is the author of One Country

Walter Hixson: Israel's Armor: The Israel Lobby and the First Generation of the Palestine Conflict.

Jan 03 2025 38 mins

Walter Hixson is the author of a half-dozen books on the history of U.S. foreign relations. He has taught history for 36 years and is currently distinguished professor of history at the University of Akron. Hixson’s books include American Foreign Relations: A New Diplomatic History (Routledge, 2016); American Settler Colonialism: A History (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013); The Myth of

Delinda Hanley: Why Talking about the Israel Lobby Matters.

Dec 25 2024 11 mins

Delinda Curtiss Hanley is news editor and executive director of the Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, a 76-page nearly monthly magazine with the largest circulation of any Middle East related publication in North America. The Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, features insightful analysis of the political, economic, and historical realities of the U.S.-Middle East re

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson: Is the U.S. Ramping up its Military Presence in Syria and Preparing to Attack Iran for Israel?

Dec 18 2024 20 mins

Col. Lawrence Wilkerson's last position in government was as Secretary of State Colin Powell's chief of staff (2002-05). He previously was associate director of the State Department's Policy Planning staff under the directorship of Ambassador Richard N. Haass, and member of that staff responsible for East Asia and the Pacific, political-military and legislative affairs (2001-02). B

Jefferson Morley: CIA and Mossad: Tradeoffs in the Formation of the U.S.-Israel Strategic Relationship.

Dec 11 2024 23 mins

Jefferson Morley is a veteran Washington investigative reporter and the author of the 2017 St. Martin’s Press book, The Ghost: The Secret Life of CIA Spymaster James Jesus Angleton. The book sheds new light on Angleton’s close relationship with Israeli intelligence, citing such cases as Israel’s 1967 attack on the USS Liberty and the diversion of U.S. government-owned weapons

Ali Abunimah: Israeli versus Russian Media Influence.

Dec 04 2024 22 mins

Ali Abunimah is a journalist and the co-founder and executive director of the widely acclaimed publication The Electronic Intifada, a nonprofit, independent online publication focusing on Palestine. A graduate of Princeton University and the University of Chicago, he is a frequent speaker on the Middle East, contributing regularly to numerous publications. He is the author of One C

Gideon Levy: The Zionist Tango: Step Left, Step Right.

Nov 27 2024 44 mins

Gideon Levy is a columnist for the Israeli daily Haaretz, which he joined in 1982. He spent four years as the newspaper’s deputy editor and is currently a member of its editorial board. He is widely considered the “dean” of Israeli journalism—as well as “the most hated man in Israel.” As Levy has written, “Treating the Palestinians as victims and the crimes perpetrate